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Stuck for a gift idea? Why not give the gift of membership ⭐️🎁 The Southern Counties Costume Society (SCCS) was formed in 1993 to bring together people interested in all aspects of textiles, clothing construction, accessories and ornamentation across the centuries. Membership is widespread and activities are held throughout Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Sussex, Surrey and London.
Events include lectures, study days, visits to museums, stately homes and private collections. These are held variously during the week, at weekends and in the evening. The exchange of ideas and knowledge is always an enjoyable part of these events.
Period and vintage dress, theatrical costumes, ethnic clothing, button making, re-enactment costumes, conservation and care of textiles, war-time austerity and haute couture have all featured in the Society’s programmes. Email updates on events and exhibitions are circulated on a regular basis.
Members receive three newsletters each year compiled from their contributions. These include articles and information about visits, events, exhibitions, useful websites and suppliers. The annual subscription for membership to the SCCS is £10.00 ⭐️🎁 more info here https://sccostumesociety.org.uk
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20th Century Radicals – it’s tomorrow!
Don’t miss out - Bookings closing at 10pm GMT
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977
Radical Costumes: Pageantry, Spectacle and the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage in Contemporary Protest - Paulina Kulacz and Sarah-Mary Geissler
Eva Peron – The only Queen dressed by Dior - Vicky Haddock
Elsa Schiaparelli: Collector Collecting - Monica Hodgson
The Most Radical of Dress Reforms? Interwar Nudism - Dr Annebella Pollen
Men’s Style in 1940s London Jazz Clubs: The Bebop Look - Dr Ray Kinsella
The Style We Sportin’ - Redefining New Power Masculinities in Prince’s ‘Gett Off’ dress, styling, and performance - Casci Ritchie
Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture - Cleo & Mark Butterfield #tomorrow #booknow #clothing #protest #radical #evaperon #counterculture #prince #bebop #sufferagette #pagentry #dior #diorvintage #vintage #onlineevent #historyofdress #collection #studyday #nudism #interwar #jazz #london
20th Century Radicals
Time is almost up to book your tickets for tomorrow’s event.
We covering a fantastic range of subjects - Women’s Suffrage, Eva Peron, Schiaparelli, Interwar Nudism, The Bebop Look, Prince and the 1960’s.
Tickets are available here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977 #radical #radicalchic #onlineevent #creativityisnotcancelled #online #fashion #historyofdress #booknow #nudism #evaperon #prince #bebop #sufferage #protest
Bookings close at 10pm GMT today.
20th Century Radicals – this Saturday!
Tickets on sale now
Today is the last of our speaker showcases and it’s the turn of our first speakers on Saturday – Paulina Kulacz and Sarah-Mary Geissler . Both are alumni of the MA in Design History and Material Culture from the University of Brighton. They share a strong interest in how textiles, clothing, and objects are all used to play on different aspects of display, memory, class, emotions etc. Their joint presentation is titled: Radical Costumes: Pageantry, Spectacle and the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage in Contemporary Protest. With her loosely pinned hair, high collared white summer dress and her purple, green and white sash, the image of the suffragette is well recognised as one of the earliest symbols of women's rights. However, the significance of this frequently anonymous and somewhat vague representation of this woman is complicated. Who was she then and who is she now? Their presentation looks to explore the juxtaposition of the image of the 'quintessential suffragette' as we understand her today and her position through the last 100 years, by focusing on her dress, particularly her dress in protests, and in turn the costume of women today who continue to evoke the image of the suffragette in protests, processions, pageants, and all kinds of women's events worldwide.
Tickets available here:
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Have you got your ticket yet?! 💜💜💜💜 20th Century Radicals – Saturday 20th
Tickets and full list of speakers:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977
Our net featured speaker is Casci Ritchie (previous SCCS bursary recipient) whose presentation is entitled The Style We Sportin’ - Redefining New Power Masculinities in Prince’s ‘Gett Off’
Casci Ritchie is a fashion historian, writer and independent film programmer based in Glasgow, Scotland. She has recently started her PhD at Northumbria University. Casci has been a lifelong fan of “His Royal Badness” and is passionate about raising awareness of Prince’s sartorial legacy within fashion studies. Prince stormed the MTV Video Music Awards stage on September 5, 1991, with an infamous live performance of his hit single ‘Gett Off’. Looking at the ‘Gett Off’ maxi-single music videos including ‘Violet the Organ Grinder’, ’Gangster Glam’, and the salacious VMA performance, this presentation will examine the many ways in which Prince disrupted hegemonic masculinities through dress, styling, and performance.
Prince image copyright Herb Ritts
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20th Century Radicals 20.11.21 - tickets on sale – less than a week to go!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977
Today’s featured speakers are Cleo and Mark Butterfield, whose presentation is “Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counter Culture”. Cleo and Mark have supplied almost all the garments for the current exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, we are very lucky that they have agreed to speak to us at this event. Cleo has worked with vintage clothing for 50 years and during the last 25 years, Cleo & Mark have supplied inspirational garments to fashion designers, curated 5 exhibitions at the Fashion and Textile museum, and supplied clothing to films and television productions. Their presentation will look to define the radical style of dressing and clothing worn by the Beautiful People and to identify its key influences. These include: vintage clothing as fashion, the introduction of Moroccan and Indian clothing, androgyny and the questioning of gender specific fabric and print, inspiration from classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films and the birth of recycling and upcycling. With examples from the current Beautiful People exhibition from boutiques such as Granny Takes a Trip, Hung On You, Biba, Apple, Quorum and Mr Fish.
Photos both copyright Mark Butterfield including “Sami Pig In Love shirt made from 1940s print dress fabric which is identical to one owned by Jimi Hendrix”
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Hello 👋
There’s now less than a week to go to our next online event.
20th Century Radicals Saturday 20th November
We’re very lucky to be the first to hear much of the research that is being shared at this event. We hope to “see” as many of you as possible at what promises to be a fascinating day! Further details of our speakers and their presentation
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977?fbclid=IwAR3wOMbA86SL6j4ttPD9y4wk1bG6e4-TjSXwNA63oYFZWIlXumoc0F6ZYAY
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20th Century Radicals Online Study Day 20.11.21
Just one week to go!
Full details and tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977 #radicals #onlineevent #museumfromhome #20thcentury #costumehistory #fashion #fashionstyle #historyofdress #collection
20th Century Radicals Online Study Day 20th November
We’re very excited to share details of our next speaker for this upcoming event – only one week to go!
Dr Ray Kinsella is a lecturer at Central Saint Martins, UAL. His PhD, and forthcoming book, is about the music, fashion and transracial relations across gender that formed the bebop scene in post-war Soho, London. Ray’s presentation is entitled: Men’s Style in 1940s London Jazz Clubs: The Bebop Look. In late 1945, early 1946, bebop music migrated across the Atlantic from New York City to Soho, London, where it was reinterpreted and reproduced by a racially diverse bunch of largely male musicians in gritty Soho basement clubs. Together with the music, a D.I.Y fashion emerged, signifying a subcultural style, differentiating beboppers from other jazz fans and wider society more generally. Through looking at historical primary sources gleaned from the music press, national newspapers, and oral histories of jazz in Britain, this talk argues that male bebop fans and musicians in Soho, both black and white, drew from black American jazz, gangster films, and post-war ‘spiv’ culture to create an original sartorial style that that they called the modern jazz look. This dissident style, together with the subversive music and transracial cross-gender fraternisation, was one component in the story that led to the police clamp-down on the bebop scene in Soho which saw the main clubs raided.
Photo copyright not known, every effort has been made by Ray to find the photographer
Tickets and details of all speakers here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977?fbclid=IwAR3wOMbA86SL6j4ttPD9y4wk1bG6e4-TjSXwNA63oYFZWIlXumoc0F6ZYAY. #bebop #soho #jazz #newyork #london #soho #1940s #1940style #radical #jazzdance #sarta #onlineevent #museumsfromhome #fashion #style #historyofdress #fashionstyle #history #postwar #postwarmodern
20th Century Radicals Online Study Day 20th November
Our next featured speaker for this upcoming event is Monica Hodgson who will be sharing her research in a talk entitled Elsa Schiaparelli: Collector Collecting.
Monica is an MA Fashion Curation student at London College of Fashion and Co-Founder of Retro Neighbourhood vintage fashion brand.
The talk will present a close reading of the auction catalogue from Elsa Schiaparelli’s personal collection auction at Christie’s in 2014. The focus will be on the dress but will also present a glimpse into Schiaparelli’s taste for the domestic interior and art. Schiaparelli’s collection included an abundance of collected artwork. She was affiliated with prominent artists, including the surrealist Salvador Dali and issues of 1930s British Vogue include Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali features. The presentation will discuss their relationship, collaboration, and influence and look at notable designs of hers.
For a full line-up of speakers and to purchase a ticket (£10 for SCCS members; £15 for non-members) please go to:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977
credit for image MH1 Man Ray, Photograph of Schiaparelli, 1931 (Christie's auction photograph, 2014)
credit for image MH7 Schiaparelli, Sleeping Blue Advertisement, Harper's Bazaar, 1940 (Photo by Nicole Bloomfield, Flickr, 2010) #schiaparelli #vogue #fashion #retro #vintage #fashionthroughtheages #dress #fashion #onlineevent @monicahodgson_curation #historyoffashion #gown #costume #radical #radicaldress
As part of our 20th Century Radicals Online Study Day on 20th November, we are honoured to have Dr Annebella Pollen, Reader in History of Art and Design and Director of the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton, speaking to us with a presentation entitled “The Most Radical of Dress Reforms? Interwar Nudism” in the very same week that her latest book “Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain” is published. Nudists might seem an unlikely subject for a fashion historian to study but in interwar England there was surprising overlap between nudists and fashion writers. Famous names in fashion history from J. C. Flugel to James Laver were practicing nudists. Interwar nudist publications were full of articles about dress and its reform. For these radical experimenters and free-thinkers, the reform of dress often meant its full elimination. In this talk Annebella analyses their theories and practices.
Tickets and full details of all the day’s presentations are available here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977 Caption: Health and Efficiency cover, July 1933. Courtesy H&E naturist/Hawk Editorial Ltd.” #1930s #radical #dress #nudists #fashion #historyoffashion #onlineevent #museumsfromhome #fashion #1930sstyle #vintage #costume
Coming soon! C20th Radicals Online Study Day – 20th November
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We’ve got some fantastic speakers lined up for our study day on 20th November – first up is Victoria Haddock, Collections Officer at Brunel’s SS Great Britain and The Costume Society Ambassadors Officer & Social Media Editor. Victoria is a fashion historian whose research interests are in C20th fashions. Victoria’s presentation is “Eva Peron – The only Queen dressed by Dior”, she will discuss the style (and political) evolution of Eva Peron, the controversial First Lady of Argentina, through her relationship with dress.
Tickets and full details of all the presentations are available here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-century-radicals-tickets-202453201977
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